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Closes

A note from Richard

V2Melody will close at midnight on 20 January 2028

This site has been a retirement project in musical poetry: poems chosen with care and set to music, offered freely for as long as it felt right to keep the garden open.

The work no longer holds the place it once did in my life. I have gone as far with it as I wish to go. Like a sand mandala, it was made to be completed and then released. I am not attached to its permanence, and I do not believe any of it needs to last beyond the time it was given. The poems were already here before I arrived and began to experiment with them. They will still be here when these musical experiments, and indeed myself, have been swept away, like the sand of a mandala. Nothing has been lost.

I want a simpler end to my life, days of simple love and enjoyment with my wonderful wife of 20 years. The work of maintaining a server, the monitoring, and the residual obligations that come with keeping a site alive no longer fit that life.

From 4 November 2026 I will not be adding new poems or musical poems to the site.

The experimental music I am making now is on my Suno profile. Those pieces stay there, and are not added to this site.

Until midnight on 20 January 2028, Spanish time, everything remains available exactly as it is. That is when my VPS server contract comes to an end, and it will not be renewed. After that, the server will be switched off and the site will disappear.

The Mandala Is Finished explains this more fully.

Thank you to anyone who found a poem, a track, or a quiet moment here.

The pleasure was in the making.

Richard

Home › Glossary › Letter D

dooli

Noun
Pronunciation

Understanding ARPABET Pronunciation

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The pronunciation guide uses the ARPABET phonetic system—the same system used in speech recognition and text-to-speech applications.

Vowel Examples:
AE1 = cat, bat
EH1 = bed, head
IY1 = see, me
OW1 = go, boat
UW1 = boot, do
Stress Numbers:
0 = no stress (unstressed)
1 = primary stress (loud)
2 = secondary stress (medium)
Example:
AH0 TH IY1 N AH0
= a-THEE-na (Athena)

The stressed syllable (marked with 1) is pronounced louder and clearer than others.

Quick Definition

A type of litter or palanquin used to carry people, especially in India.

Detailed Definition
A 'dooli' is a traditional Indian litter or palanquin, often used to carry individuals who are unable to walk or are injured. In the poem, the mention of a dooli signifies the urgency and care taken to transport the wounded, reflecting the cultural practices of the time. This term may not be widely recognized outside of specific cultural or historical contexts, making it a noteworthy inclusion in the poem.
Example
Example in poetry:
“’E carried me away / To where a dooli lay” (Kipling, “The Ballad of East and West”); “A dooli” as a South Asian litter for carrying a person; “Bearers lifted the dooli through the dust” (colonial-era setting); “The wounded traveller rode in a curtained dooli” (contextual example)
Additional Notes
The word 'dooli' is a specific cultural term that may not be familiar to readers who are not knowledgeable about Indian customs or historical practices.; Found in the poem, Gunga Din by Rudyard Kipling
Also Known As
Palanquin Sedan Chair Doli
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